The symbolic casting off of darkness and letting in of the light at the start of May finds its origins in the ancient ritual of Beltane – a festival that has been celebrated for thousands of years. As far back as the Iron Age, Celts came together to celebrate Summer’s return. As with the other festivals in the Wheel of the Year, they marked the farming calendar and its rituals, and at this time livestock would have been put out to pasture to graze, the countryside being sufficiently warm and verdant.

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It would not be accurate to say that the Silent Night, Deadly Night movies got classy in their third outing. This most disreputable of franchises kept it sleazy but something curious nevertheless happened with the second sequel to arguably the most notorious film of the 1980s.  A series so shameless and mercenary that it at one point planned to re-edit Silent Night, Deadly Night, add a few new scenes and pass off the results as a proper sequel unexpectedly attracted impressive names in front of the camera and behind it.

The years since his 1989 passing have been kind to Blaze Foley. While he was alive, the singer-songwriter had released only a single and an LP that was never distributed aside from a box full of vinyl albums he would barter for beers and cab rides. In recent years, the “derelict in duct tape shoes” of the 1998 Lucinda Williams’ song “Drunken Angel,” has vaulted to folk hero status. Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett and his hero John Prine are among those who have recorded his compositions, plus he inspired two fine films, the Duct Tape Messiah documentary (2011) and 2018 biopic Blaze, directed by Ethan Hawke.